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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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In Asia, in particular, high temperatures, humidity, solar radiation and the frequency of storms play a major role. Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example. We are conducting low-level visual flights and can only fly in cloudless areas.

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